The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-14
A LIGHT DAWN I'D ON HIM.
Ho Wanted Troo Wool but Free Soda Par
lyxed Hin. #g

uo wanted Eroo Wool but Free Soda Para.
l,xed Him.
Correspondence Philadelphia Prtss. ii. IT,
! heard very good story to-day, apro.
pos Of the zeal Of good many so.called
revenue reformsru. An Eautern wooden
manufacturer, who had 60 for perfected
bis machinery, increased Its speed and
made his labor more effective as to have
roschM tho conclusion few years ago
that with raw wool as cheap &c he Thought
no could get 1t II 1t could be imported Tree
Of duty he could get along with protec.
tive tarill on his manufactured product,
Joined the FREQ traders, became q Mug.
wump and voted for Cleveland. AZ be
had before been prominen. Republican
and been honored by his party, his deser.
ton OF his political Colors injured bis
party much more than the simple loss Of
bis vote. :
In the meantime. during q visit to
France, no has become interested in tho
Solve process Of making aoda-a process
which, while 1t leaves the manufacture no
by.products as tho ordinary method doss.
10 go much cheaper than the latter ss TO
make 1t certain to supplsnt the old pro.
cess wherever it is used. Aasocisting with
himself come Other capitalists, he pur.
chased Of the inventor the exclusive right
to make aoda in this country by the Solve
process. ncq hiring some valuable salt rights
Ia tho Uatted sta.ea, and erected plant,
the entire expenditure being about ST $50.
O0O. They met with the uaual misfor:unes
and olscouragements, and would have
failed II they bad not been rich, but at
length they have gotten upon their feet
and have bright prospect bsiore them.
After the Rad Top conference a report
WAS printed in come Eastern newspaper
that among the Articles of raw msterisle
that would BIO placed on the free list was
soda. The Esn who had been go suxlous
to have the duty on wool repealed was at
once alarmed. lie fastened to his Con.
gresham to End out something about il
and to see il eomething couldn't be done
to prevent such calamity. lie said that
DO and his associates had put their monsy
into the businees in good faith; that they
had taken large risks and received no re-.
turns upon their capital for several years;
tina, they were giving employment at
good wages to great many persons: that
their business had proved great benefit
to the place whore it had been ostsbleh.
ed and 10 tho country all about, making
An increased dsmand for the farners'
products and csuaing the price of their
lasd 10 increase, and, no added, nobody
had been injured. The glassmske1n, who
wsre required to pay SIS ton for thoir
soda beioro the Solve process wss intro.
duced into this country, were now buying
il at $50. f-.45.,.. a.
His Congressional representative told
him that he,hld just made ths strongest
kind Of speech sssins. putting wool on
the Tres list, and, strange to say, the sen.
sleman had never thought OF it in that
light boicro. Scratch q Free.trader'o
back and you discover man who hopes
to mako moro money by buying come par
ticnlsr article cheaper alter the duty has
been removed, Or an impracticable .heo-
rist who hso been carried away by the
aophistlies Of the echools.
The best epigram on the preeident'e
message that have heard WAS made By a
Democratic Senator who remarked that
Mr.. Cleveland was the FIRST Presiden.
who; by slnple s.sto paper, .had made the
platforms Of two grest parties and named
both the candidatea.